Alternative approach to page allocation #301
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This is a direct style, not using arenas. It's more like a slab allocator, but only for 4k page allocations. This allows the slab cache to be manipulated only using atomic IORef operations.
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This is here for benchmarking comparison purposes, and so see what we think of the generality vs performance trade-off.
This allocator approach is a direct style, not using arenas. It's more like a slab allocator, but only for 4k page allocations.
This allows the slab cache to be manipulated only using atomic IORef operations.